{"id":690,"date":"2011-06-16T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=690"},"modified":"2011-06-16T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:09:55","slug":"slytherin-parseltongue-and-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2011\/06\/slytherin-parseltongue-and-integrity.html","title":{"rendered":"Slytherin, Parseltongue and integrity ~"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A couple in Idaho know more than anyone other than a crazed herpetologist should have to know about garter snakes. For three months, they apparently lived dead centre, on top, of a hibernaculum, where snakes hibernate in thousands during winter.<\/p>\n

These were only garter snakes, sure. But THOUSANDS??? You can read the horror story<\/a> here. Even garter snakes in the thousands <\/em>are pretty creepy. Garter snakes coming out of crevices, garter snakes in the wall, garter snakes flavouring the water<\/em>?<\/p>\n

The point? Someone knowingly sold Ben & Amber Sessions this house. And yes, they signed a waiver. But who can even conceive of snakes in these numbers? In your house<\/em>? Not to mention that, according to the sessions, they were told the whole story was a fabrication (I believe that, by the way — I can’t imagine being asked to sign a snake waiver…)<\/p>\n

What kind of person could sell someone else a house filled with snakes? So many that the Sessions preferred bankruptcy to the ‘Satan’s lair’ Amber Sessions said their house had become.<\/p>\n

I know we need money to live. But we live with ourselves. And seriously? I don’t know how I could sleep at night thinking I’d put someone in that situation. Even if they did sign a waiver.<\/p>\n

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